A familiar voice is returning to the Oklahoma storm chasing scene! Earlier today, KFOR Channel 4 announced that Mason Dunn – Gary England’s old chopper pilot at Channel 9 – will be the new...
After what we assume was an exhaustive search that couldn’t find one person to take a career-ending job, Gatehouse Media announced that Kelly Dyer Fry – The Oklahoman’s current Editor...
New owners. Same paper. Last week, The Oklahoman Editorial Board – a handful of right-wing propagandists with oil stains on their knees and Harold Hamm’s fracking fluid in their mouth –...
Last week, the obscure local political website Non Doc announced it will cease operations through the end of the year, and is in a desperate search for a wealthy benefactor to save them. Who...
Do you think global warming is a myth, all poor people are lazy, and that loyally protecting your friends and fiercely attacking their enemies is a trademark of quality local journalism? If so, you...
News 9 is taking this “on the scene, on the story” stuff a bit too seriously. Yesterday afternoon, Aaron “Tattletail” Brilbeck successfully stopped a couple from beautifying...
Here’s a local news story you won’t see only on channel 9. Earlier today, the Justice Department announced it has reached a settlement with six tv news broadcast groups across the...
As I stood in the middle of the empty street, the sky became increasingly grey and the wind had much more of a chill than expected. It had been about twenty years since I was last at Carey Place—or...
Although they’re not as forward as The Oklahoman, one of the biggest media allies of the Oklahoma conservative ruling class is Griffin Communications – the local owners and operators of...
Like most sports-obsessed, Oklahoma born and raised GenX-Millenial hybrids, The Oklahoman’s Berry “Boomer” Tramel used to be required reading for me. Complete with folksy metaphors...
Around the same time Mike Stoops was finally fired as defensive coordinator at OU, rumors began circulating on the always credible and accurate college football message board circuit...
It’s only been a few days since The Oklahoman was purchased by generic newspaper monolith Gatehouse Media and already the new ownership and management changes are becoming clear and...
Late last night, rumors began circulating through the Ogle Mole Network that The Oklahoman was having a big staff meeting this morning. The thought was the paper was either going to announce more...
Who’s ready for another edition of “As The Doppler Turns?” Earlier this year, while I complained about Mike Morgan blocking TLO on Twitter, Emily Sutton jumped in with a strange...
Even if you swap out the proper nouns with more generic descriptors, the headline to this article still reads like something you’d see in a 2006 edition of The Onion, or better yet, The...
Thanks to a three-month old baby, a persistent iPhone emergency alert, and a border collie named Simon that shakes like a an old Dr. Katz cartoon whenever thunder strikes, it’s safe to say...
The Oklahoman’s print media empire is disintegrating nicely. We have learned that “Look at OKC” – The Oklahoman’s 21st century foray into the alt-weekly scene – quietly...
Well, I guess Lacey Swope got tired of spending more time with family and friends. Approximately one year after a much hyped and dramatized “return home” to News on 6 in Green Country...
We have learned via the Ogle Mole Network that Lance “Danger” West – the goofy and affable anchor / reporter for KFOR Channel 4 – resigned yesterday afternoon after a 23-year...
The Oklahoma City metro is about to lose a set of nice hair. After 10 years of anchoring the Channel 5 news desk and sharing his many faces, we have learned that Paul Folger is leaving Oklahoma...
Every time we write something mean or funny about Ree Drummond – The Pioneer Woman – on this website, some middle-aged, day-drinking Yukon mom with a cross-wall in her kitchen hops into the...
With the world wide web at our fingertips, these days its hard for small town newspapers to have enough subscribers to keep the presses hot. In fact, 2016 alone saw a 10% decrease in newspaper...
Oklahoma is a place of weather extremes and dysfunction, so I guess you can say we’ve had a typical-atypical start to the spring weather season. So far, the theme of Spring has been...
Earlier this year, we broke the news that Bob Moore respectfully dropped their sponsorship of KFOR Chopper 4 – the flagship vessel of Mike Morgan’s weather chasing cavalry. After a few...
One thing that’s never made any sense to me is why so many TV news sets have televisions playing in the background behind the news anchors. What’s the point? Are TV news people so ADD...